The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-03
CURRENT LITERATURE.

"Our Hundred Days in Europe" is the record
Of DR.. Oliver Wendell Holiness second trip Co
Europe. made after an interval OF more than
fifty years from the FIRST one. This trip was
made in the summer Of 1886 He calls it ..our,
trip because he was accompanied by his daugh-
ter, whose diary, he says, he makes free use of.
It is written in the authors own delightful STYLE
aud, barring some tendency to earrulity and
personal condolences, sign of age. is inter-
esting book. But DIR. Holmes as we'll as others
would do we'll to remember that an author who
has made a great reputation in his prime should
beware OF writing too much after he has
tered the period of decadsnce. Cloth. 81 80.
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"a Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson, by James
Elliott Cabot. is very complete and interest
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author defines the purpose of the work to be to
give the readers and friends Of Emerson some
further illustrations, some details of his out
ward and inward history that may fill out and
define moro closely the image of him they already
have rather than introduce him to strangers The
author was Mr.. Emersons literary executor. aud
this work was prepared at the desire of the
family. It follows that he had access to all
available material. including unpublished writ
complete picture of MIR. Emerson both in his re-
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lily relations. The hitherto unpublished letters
form an interesting feature of the work, which
is in two handsome volumes, the first embeI-
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IA Collection of Letters of Thackeray" would,
under any circumstances, be an interesting ad-
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under this title is peculiarly The letters
cover the period from lS47 to 1855. They
written in the fullest freedom of personal friend
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great novelist's personal characteristics. There
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The last OF the four volumes of his edition Of
Irvine's Life of Washington has been issued by
John B. Alden. New York. A need for an in
expensive edition of this work has long been
felt, and these low-priced but we.l-printed and
neatly bound volumes will undoubtedly meet
the demand.
It is somewhat singular that notwithstanding
of Patrick Henry, he has hitherto been tho sub.
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Those who have read Elizabeth Stuart
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1.-THE Gates Between" Written in the form of
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swell worn Roads Travelled by Painter in
Search Of the Picturesque" by F. Hopkinson
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The Ideal Edition of Shakespeare, published by
John BsAlden, Now York, is concluded by the
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easy to read.
'sThe Making of the Great West" by Samuel
Adams Drake, is a condensed history of the
leading events and salient incidents connected
with the discovery. settlement, development
and growth of the great West The book con-
tains variety of interesting information, pre-
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Indianapo-
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Two Years in Europe" by Prof. Rodney
Gsan, M. D.. is the old story by a new nand.
The author member of the council of the
Ninth International Medical Congress. held in
London in 1881, and he expanded his trip into a
two years. stay in Europe The record of his
travels and observations contains little that is
new striking. but it is the record of in
clear and pleasing style. 1t is q large and hand
some volume price So. So New York: g. p.
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Volume No. 80. in the Questions of the Day
Series, is entitled Federal Taxes and State Ex-
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excise under the Federal Constitution, and the
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relation OF the general civil administration
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welfare of the United States under the federal
autonomy" by William Fl. Jones, of FIT Wayne,
Ind. It is carefully considered treatise on
the subject embraced in the title, and can be
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such, whether thev agree with the authors con-
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Putnam's Sons Indianapolis: The Bowen Mer-
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Fancy Work for Christmas.